East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century: A Never-Ending Story?

Balázs Trencsényi (Editor), Lucija Balikić (Editor), Una Blagojević (Editor), Isidora Grubački (Editor)

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

The term “crisis,” with its complex history, has emerged as one of the pivotal notions of political modernity. As such, reconstructing the ways the discourse of crisis functioned in various contexts and historical moments gives us a unique insight not only into a series of conceptual transformations, but also into the underlying logic of key political and intellectual controversies of the last two centuries. Studying the ways crisis was experienced, conceptualized, and negotiated can contribute to the understanding of how various visions of time and history shape political thinking and, conversely, how political and social reconfigurations frame our assumptions about temporality and spatiality. A historical region wedged in between various competing imperial centers, East Central Europe has been an area often associated with crisis phenomena by both internal and external observers. Seeking to employ the regional gaze as a vantage point to reflect on issues which are relevant well beyond those countries between the Baltic and the Adriatic, this project is also in dialogue with a number of recent transnational attempts to rethink political and intellectual history with regard to the recurrent epistemological frames that structure the political and cultural debate. This book will thus be useful both for researchers, from the field of intellectual history and numerous adjacent fields, and graduate university students alike.

Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherRoutledge Taylor & Francis Group
Number of pages427
ISBN (Electronic)9781040106181
ISBN (Print)9781032572055
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024

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